On Wednesday 22 Sep 2004 02:34, Erik Steffl wrote: > Q: why are soundfonts mostly in funny formats (exe? sfArk?), > instead of compressed *SF2 files (using some common compression > program like zip or gzip etc.). Because sfArk and sfpack compress soundfonts much better than zip/gzip/bzip2 can. I didn't expect that to be true myself, but it is. I guess a Free alternative would want to use some sort of dedicated audio compression like FLAC. Chris
